People v. Grant

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Cowhey, J.), rendered November 13, 1990, convicting him of murder in the second degree and arson in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was denied a fair trial, claiming that the prosecutor cross-examined him improperly. He argues that the prosecutor lacked a good faith basis to ask certain questions, which, notwithstanding the defendant’s negative responses, implied that he had been observed by two witnesses near the…